We're looking forward to #SOBP2026! 🧠Building Better Brains: From Synapses to Societies 📆When: April 30 – May 2, 2026 📍Where: New York Marriott Marquis, New York City, New York Join us for an engaging conference featuring the latest advancements in biological psychiatry.

Encircle ICE. They can leave the circle but their victims stay with the people NO VIOLENCE! One circle and then another and another if necessary. This is a police tactic that we need to be using against them. There are more of us than there are them. Use our numbers against them!

Fall in Michigan 🍁

Love this crew @wsuthinklab.bsky.social @wsucandid.bsky.social @waynestateresearch.bsky.social

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

Huge congratulations to @wsuthinklab.bsky.social's own Sam Ely for winning a Graduate Student Poster Award at the Cannabinoid Gordon Research Symposium 2025!!!! #cannabinerds #CannabinoidGRC2025 @waynestatetnp.bsky.social

Trump calls those who serve “suckers and losers.” Now he’s gutting the housing program that alleviates Veteran homelessness. Same contempt, different day. MORE: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/h...

It’s easy to feel discouraged in today’s climate, but teaching younger students about the brain—even all these years later—reminds me why I started. Seeing their excitement about science makes it all worth it ❤️🧠

That escalated quickly!!! (Jk, took > 6 years 😅)

🎉 Huge congrats to TNP graduate student extraordinaire, Sam, on receiving the Corrine F. Resta Award! We’re so proud of you! 👏💙 📣 Stay up to date on all the amazing work from our TNP #Neuroscience faculty and #PhD students — follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Bluesky! @wsuthinklab.bsky.social

So honored to collaborate with this powerhouse group led by @mayoonthebrain.bsky.social 🌟 Grateful to @ryanntansey.bsky.social, @marcdferger.bsky.social, @pact-lab.bsky.social for the opportunity to contribute to this important work on the endocannabinoid system & developmental psychopathology! 🙌🧠

What do we know about the endocannabinoid system in developmental psychopathology?🤔 Find out in our recent paper, led by @pact-lab.bsky.social postdocs @ryanntansey.bsky.social & @marcdferger.bsky.social + collaborator extraordinaire @hmarusak.bsky.social 👇

🎉 New paper! Led by @waynestateresearch.bsky.social medical student Sneha Bhargava, we show how puberty & sex impact fear extinction retention—key to understanding anxiety risk in females. Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.dc... #Neuroscience #AdolescentMentalHealth #Puberty @wsuthinklab.bsky.social

#ThisWeekInNPP ⬆️ AEA & ⬇️ 2-AG levels are linked to ⬆️ anxiety in youth; SSRI response in teens with GAD was tied to ⬆️ 2-AG; Could endocannabinoids be biomarkers for anxiety & treatment response? #Cannabinerds @wsuthinklab.bsky.social @hmarusak.bsky.social ‬ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEW: Nearly 300 EPA workers have signed onto a “Declaration of Dissent” against the Trump administration’s climate policies and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s leadership. This is the second declaration to come out of this administration from angry federal workers.

🚨 New paper in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We combined data from 3 studies (including an SSRI RCT) to explore how endocannabinoids relate to anxiety & treatment response in kids + teens. Team science w/ Jeanne Barcelona, Jeffrey Strawn & more! www.nature.com/articles/s41... @wsuthinklab.bsky.social

Excited to share my new edited book Cannabis and the Developing Brain—a deep dive into how cannabis impacts the brain during pregnancy, childhood, & adolescence. Thanks to all the amazing contributors! 💚🧠 Available via Springer, Amazon + more: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #Cannabis #Brain

Grateful to kick off a new NIH-funded study w/ my dream team (Christine Rabinak @brainsbeesbikes.bsky.social & Leslie Lundahl) testing whether CBD can boost therapy for anxiety. Excited, but also heavy-hearted given the tough climate for so many colleagues... 💚🧠 research.wayne.edu/news/wayne-s...

People are dying and more will die because of this administration.

If anything, @gregggonsalves.bsky.social is too soft on Sen. Cassidy, who has betrayed everything he once stood for, as well as the medical profession, by ignoring RFK Jr.’s lies, all to delude himself into thinking he could control RFK Jr.’s worst impulses. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Trump sabotages - Ag, family farms - US health care and public health - Science, research, academia - fiscal health of US - our democracy and our humanity - our global reputation Eternal shame to his Congressional enablers.

We're hiring at the THINK lab @wsuthinklab.bsky.social! Join our NIH-funded study on anxiety, CBD & CBT (w/ Drs. Christine Rabinak & Leslie Lundahl). Full-time RA—great for psych/neuro grads. Hands-on research incl. fMRI & biomarkers. Based in Detroit. Apply: waynetalent.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Neuroscientist Clara Zundel explains how NIH funding brought her back to Michigan to study how pollution and lead exposure harm brain development. Without science, we lose the ability to protect kid’s brains from environmental threats. 🧪🏠 @clarazundel.bsky.social www.voicenews.com/2025/03/12/f...

My deepest respect and gratitude for the courageous #NIH employees who wrote and signed this Bethesda Declaration. I've read it in full, as well as the letter from #StandUpForScience - and I've signed on in support. www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

This parade will cost at least the equivalent of 180 years worth of an NIH biomedical research grant.

New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

Experts inside and outside the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been left stunned and puzzled by the decimation of a nearly 80-year-old agency that has been a global leader in public health. Learn how decimating the CDC will cost many lives in the US and abroad. #MedSky

We work together to get Trump out, or the American scientific research enterprise is finished. We probably cannot survive two more years of Trump in office and end up with American science that looks anything like it looks now.

🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation. This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Here’s how Trump’s war on science is going. NSF funding is at the lowest level in decades. We’ll lose knowledge, generations of scientists, and US competitiveness. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Honored to introduce my dear friend and mentor, Dr. Christine Rabinak at Michigan SfN’s keynote. Her talk was entitled “Fearless-ish”. She spoke with courage and clarity about trauma, PTSD, and facing a terminal cancer diagnosis—leading and inspiring every step of the way.

To be clear, if this bill passes, it will end all scientific research & medical training in the US. It will close hospitals. It will be economically devastating. Millions will lose their jobs. Call your representatives & tell them to vote fuck no on 15% IDC rates & the rest of this horror show.

If you work in healthcare, please consider signing this letter: “we have dedicated our careers to protecting the health of our patients and improving health in our communities…However, we cannot fill the void that is being created by these reckless and deep cuts…” docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

☀️THE SUMMER FIGHT FOR SCIENCE☀️ 🫵 WHO: You + all our friends 🧪 WHAT: Share science with your neighbors and tell them about the impact of proposed budget cuts. 🇺🇸 WHERE: Your local community 🏖️ WHEN: Now to Sept 30th 🔬 WHY: The 9/30 budget vote will determine the future of science in America.

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

I wrote about our president, who is a crook newrepublic.com/article/1952...

#RFKJr is committing #publichealthmalpractice. Now with alt text. #publichealth #medsky #episky #infectiousdiseases #science

"Let’s be clear: It isn’t institutions that are being punished. It’s the researchers who are the future of science in this country — the ones who spend long hours at lab benches, running experiments, analyzing data." #SpeakOut #BrainDrain www.statnews.com/2025/05/07/u...

Beautiful day on Capitol Hill with @americanbrainco.bsky.social and @acnporg.bsky.social meeting Rep. Neal Dunn, Sen. Bill Cassidy & LHHS Approps staff to champion NIH & BRAIN Initiative funding for neuroscience research. 🧠 💪 #Neuroscience #BRAINInitiative #NIH #SciencePolicy #Neuroadvocate

🎉 Congrats to our @wsuthinklab.bsky.social graduates, we are so proud of you! @mackennashampine.bsky.social will be starting a Clinical Psych PhD program at UW-Milwaukee, Alex Jakubiec will be starting a Biochem PhD at Notre Dame, and Matthew Vandeweerd will be starting a PhD program, likely abroad👏

THIS WEEK! On Wed, May 7, The American Brain Coalition, AAN, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Dana Foundation, IEEE Brain, Simons Foundation, SfN & Kavli Foundation, in cooperation w/ the Congressional Neuroscience Caucus, invite you to a special briefing 👉 RSVP: tinyurl.com/25zfk538

The cuts to science funding *alone* will generate a Great Recession-sized hole in the economy. "It’s less a 'self-inflicted wound' and more 'jumping head-first into a wood chipper.'”

Big congrats to Emily Crisan & Shivani Bongu for presenting at Pediatrics Research Day! 👏 Emily shared work on parent-child closeness, peer victimization, & anxiety, and Shivani on physical activity’s anxiolytic effects in youth. So proud! 💙 @wsuthinklab.bsky.social #YouthMentalHealth

In 100 days in office, US President Donald Trump has destabilized eight decades of government support for science. This has included terminating more than 1,000 grants in areas such as climate change, cancer, and HIV prevention. Will US science survive Trump 2.0? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨SCIENCE UNDER SIEGE: TRUMP’S FIRST 100 DAYS 🚨 In his first 100 days, Trump has declared war on science—slashing budgets, censoring facts, and meddling in research. From climate to cancer care, real lives are at risk. Here’s a thread on Trump’s assault on science so far—and why it matters: (🧵)

"This paper studies whether working from home (WFH) affects workers' performance in public sector jobs... we find that WFH increases productivity by 12%." @afenizia.bsky.social Evidence that administrations that reject WFH harm efficiency. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

What does our Medical Establishment intimidate its employees this way? Doesn’t free speech matter for science?

So much exciting science shared by the next generation! @wsuthinklab.bsky.social represented by Christine Lewis, Jennifer Losiowski, Sneha Bhargava, & Dr. Clara Zundel! Until next time #SOBP! #toronto #neuroscience